Pollutant causes delayed flowering in plants
...own that stimuli, such as drought, salt stress and pathogen infection, induced internal nitric oxide production. But it was not expected that external nitric oxide affected the flowering pathway." To explore how the molecular machinery of the plant was affected by nitric oxide, the researchers identified muta...Scientists decipher genetic code of biothreat pathogen
...ts have deciphered the genetic code of the ancient pathogen that causes the horse disease: Burkholderia mallei.... The study found that B. mallei, a highly evolved pathogen that has been deployed in the past as a biological weapon, has an extremely regulated set of virulen...Case for IBD combination therapy comes from research at Baylor, MIT and Hebrew University
...t mucosal anti-inflammatory effects independent of pathogen antagonism. Treatment of IBD by membrane-anchored phospholipase A2 inhibitors linked to glycosaminoglycans: novel multi-functional anti-inflammatory drugs. Researchers at Saul Yedgar's laboratory at the Department of Biochemistry, Hebrew University, ...Missing genes may help explain why plague bacteria are so deadly
...nome of Y. pseudotuberculosis, an animal and human pathogen that can cause fever and appendicitis-like pain if ingested in water or food. They then compared the Y. pseudotuberculosis genome with the DNA sequences of two Y. pestis strains previously sequenced by the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, England. Whil...Researchers improve detection of diverse anthrax strains
...the evolutionary and genetic history of the deadly pathogen Bacillus anthracis (anthrax). Researchers at No...environment. Specific and sensitive tests for this pathogen are needed for effective bio-defense and forensic investigation into previous events." TIGR's scien...The future of HIV therapeutics is brightening, according to Gladstone Institutes Director
...ut that basic research on HIV, a relatively simple pathogen with only nine genes encoding 15 proteins, are leading to compelling new therapies that deny the initial entry of HIV into its cellular host. In addition, fast-moving research of naturally occurring factors with potent antiviral properties is opening...Visiting African scientists collaborate with MBL scientists on infectious diseases
...scientists to combat these diseases. One important pathogen studied by the visiting scholars in the GID program is the African trypanosome. This vicious parasite causes human sleeping sickness, a fatal disease that has reemerged as a major health problem in sub-Saharan Africa. Gustave Simo, from Cameroon, wil...JGI announces community sequencing program portfolio
...or the host. Staphylococcus aureus a food-borne pathogen that is implicated in thousands of infections in the U.S. alone. Sequencing of an antibiotic resistant form of this organism will inform how antibiotic resistance occurs. Sequencing of groundwater samples from contaminated sites within the Oak Ridg...... receptors - a plant radar system which signalizes pathogen invasion. To circumvent the immune system, a parasite has to either slip through the plant radar system or affect the cellular immune response following its detection. The mildew chose the latter strategy and therefore manipulates the so called MLO p...Promising hospital anti-infection strategy probably won't work, study shows
...heory behind antibiotic cycling is that, just as a pathogen strain begins to adapt to a particular antibiotic, a new antibiotic is introduced and the pathogen must start from scratch in building resistance. However, the model implies that pathogens actually e...Full promise of genomics in disease research yet to be realized
... Certain themes have emerged from the analyses of pathogen genome sequences and the possibility exists that a "common thread" genetic sequence may be found linking pathogens of wildly different species, says the report. Finding such a "Rosetta Stone" of pathogenesis could ultimately expedite disease control ......, "The coevolution of host social organization and pathogen transmission." Examining data from primates and carnivores, along with theoretical models, Dobson will also discuss the possible role of pathogens in shaping populations. From the influence of viruses and bacteria, the session will shift to the mini...Climate change could doom Alaska's tundra
...n forest fires and a likely increase in insect and pathogen attacks on trees are also projected by some of the most sophisticated computer models yet developed, Bachelet said."The effects of climate change in Alaska will be among the most visible in the world," Bachelet said. "The tundra has no place else to ...Growing new breed of vaccine-producing plants to fight human diseases worldwide
...io-manufacture" subunit vaccines consisting of the pathogen gene products. Simple feeding of the plant tissues to animals or humans results in an immune response to the subunit vaccines," Arntzen commented. Arntzen's research focuses now on producing vaccines in tomatoes to fight human affliction...Asian bird flu became highly pathogenic through continued circulation and gene swapping
...traces the evolution of the virus into a dangerous pathogen through a series of reassortment events. Results o...and eventually could evolve into a dangerous human pathogen as well." Webster and Webby are co-authors of the Nature report, which details genetic studies of t...Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...ese and German researchers have identified a novel pathogen as the cause of infection in a patient with rheum...kami. 2004. Nocardia arthritidis sp. nov., a new pathogen isolated from a patient with rheumatoid arthritis in Japan. Journal of Clinical Microbiology , 42....Inadequate vaccines can help breed more vicious malaria strains
...nsider the evolutionary implications, or increased pathogen virulence could be an unintended consequence."...JGI, VBI help unravel sudden oak death & soybean disease
... primarily soybeans, and Phytophthora ramorum, the pathogen causing Sudden Oak Death, "will contribute great v...y University of California scientists in 2000. The pathogen is known to be present in 13 California counties and also in Southern Oregon. It has also been detec...Virginia Bioinformatics Institute researcher advances fight against sudden oak death disease
...lso known as sudden oak death, is a serious fungal pathogen that has attacked and killed tens of thousands of ...ifornia and Oregon oak trees. P. sojae, the sister pathogen to P. ramorum, causes serious damage to soybean crops and cost growers $1 billion worldwide last yea...... only to better understand what makes a particular pathogen harmful for the host, but to determine those chara...ocus on the pathogen; the relationship between the pathogen and host is so important." C elegans is an ideal model for genetic studies, Aballay said, because th...